Why?

Ariel has been starting to ask so many questions. You know, the ones that I don't have the answers to. All the "Why?" questions but these are the hard "Why's". Every kind of bird we see she wants to know what kind of bird it is. Pff I don't know a stinkin thing about birds!
Where is the earth? How high is Heaven? How big is Heaven? Are Dinosaurs real? How come they aren't alive still? Why did God make bugs if we always step on them and kill them? How did God make Whales? Why did he make Killer Whales? How did God make the earth? Why did God make the earth? How did God make people? Why don't all people look the same? Why do people get old? When will Jesus get here??
My favorite random question from this week was "Why does Superman have laser vision?" "Umm, Well because that's just one of his super powers" "But why in the world would someone make fire come out of his eyes!!!"

So today my mom and I took the kids to Hastings (haven't been there in ages!) and we found some books to help mommy answer some questions! So mommy has some studying to do that way maybe I won't be so caught off guard when the next random 'WHY' Question comes flying at me! Ariel is so smart its ridiculous! I don't know if I can keep up with her!! She is starting to ask about months and years. So I need to sit down with a calender and attempt to explain all of that. And she doesn't quite understand that we live here and her cousins live in Denver City and we can just 'go over' to their house anytime. And she always asks me if random people we see are in Texas like us. LOL So I also need a globe/map to explain cities, states, countries, and continents. I have no idea if she is going to really understand any of it but I have to start giving some answers some time. And if she does understand, which would not surprise me in the least considering how fast she has caught onto everything else, Holy Cow she is going to be so far ahead when she starts Kindergarten.

Besides the Superman quote of this week; my other favorite was while we were watching 'Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer'. A while after Grandma got run over, there was a scene that showed all the reindeer flying and pulling the sled. All of the sudden she got real serious and said "I GUARANTEE it was the two middle ones that did it!!" LOL

Loving the Holidays

It's been a while since I have posted anything. Probably because my hubby was home for a while! ;) I do have to say that things have gotten much better since my last few posts! What ever it was that was making the kids act like crazy little monsters is gone!! I have my kids back!! YAAAYYY!
We had Thanksgiving this year at my sisters. It was pretty small compared to what we are used to. All our family has moved and we are all too spread out. :( Mike did get to be here for Thanksgiving though! He has never missed a holiday yet. So far for the past 4 years he has just happened to be in between jobs on both Thanksgiving and Christmas. So he has not missed one as of yet. He did have to leave at 5AM the morning after Thanksgiving though. It was close but he made it! I am praying that the same happens for Christmas. Last year his job finished the day before Christmas Eve which put him getting home on Christmas Eve. I don't know how in the world I would be able to do Christmas morning with the kids and no Daddy!
Went shopping on Black Friday with my sister in Lubbock. I just have to say that I absolutely LOVE getting up super, extra early to go shopping ALL DAY!! This is probably the one day out of the year that my husband understands that I need to go shopping and spend money, and that I need to do it with out the kids. So I get a whole day to myself, shopping! What could be better; oh wait, I know! The fact that there are fantabulous sales!!! I LOVE to bargain shop! So this year Toys R Us opened at midnight, me and my sister stayed up all day Thanksgiving Day and left Denver City at like midnight to drive an hour to Lubbock and shop like crazy women!! It was great! I got pretty much everything that I wanted. I even bought myself a pink BB Gun! ;) Can't wait to use it. I guess I can sit at my back door and pop squirrels... LOL
I still don't have the tree or decorations up yet. I had to move stuff around in my living room because we got new furniture and didn't really have room for our tree. (We need a bigger house, we out grew this one 4 years ago!) But I think I got it figured out. Now I just have to get someone to help me get the tree down from the loft in the storage building... Hopefully I will get that done tomorrow.

I have been DVRing a bunch of Christmas movies for us to watch as a family. I can't wait till Mike gets home!!